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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Jonny</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="gI"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.11.17 (04) [EN]</span><br><br></span><div id=":8u" class="ii gt">
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<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Mensch,
Marcus,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>in my first posting
whithin this thread I had made some thoughts to put up any continuative
comments of the same kind:</span></div><div class="im">
<div><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>>>(But, independant from
the linguistic stuff, I wonder what's the reason that the Germanic people only
mowed once? I don't >>know of any major improvements in agriculture back
then that could have improved the grass growth that much.<br>>>And to come back to
Jonny speaking about it as a moribund word: It's one of the examples where not
language decline is >>the cause for a word disappearing, but where the
word just became unfit to represent reality anymore. There's no use for
>>a word meaning "second and last time of mowing" if agriculture has
improved thus far that modern farmers can mow five >>times a
year.)</span></div>
<div><span></span>Â </div>
</div><div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>But I had been too
lazy and feared to disturb people, because LS "Etgrao" in its original sense is
independent from the number of cuts/mowings - it's just the "re-growing"; it
hasn't to be mown but the cattle can eat it by their own
mouthes.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Today it's called
the "1st., 2nd. 3d. ... cut".</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Landmenschen unter
sich, wat?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Thanks
anyway!</span></div><div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left">Allerbest!</div><div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="im">
<div align="left">Â </div>
<div align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div>
<div align="left">Lower Saxony,
Germany</div></div></div>
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